An August 24, 2009 story from Religion News Service about the ELCA’s decision to allow partnered gay clergy.

Robin Lovin is an ethicist at Southern Methodist University, the author of Christian Ethics: The Essential Guide (Abingdon Press, 2000) and a frequent commentator on war and peace issues.

The Center for Survivors of Torture in Austin and Dallas, Texas, is dedicated to helping the survivors of worldwide torture with their mental and physical health.

Rabbi Marc Gellman is senior rabbi of Temple Beth Torah in Melville, N.Y. He has written several books of modern midrashim for children, including Does God Have a Big Toe? Stories About Stories in the Bible, and is author of the post-9/11 book And God Cried Too: A Kid’s Book of Healing and Hope. With his Roman Catholic friend Monsignor […]

Regina Schwartz is director of the Institute for Religion and Global Violence at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.

Sam Goldstein is a neuropsychologist on the faculty of the University of Utah and in private practice at the Neurology, Learning and Behavior Center in Salt Lake City. He is the co-author of Raising Resilient Children: Fostering Strength, Hope and Optimism in Your Child and the forthcoming Raising a Self-Disciplined Child: Help Your Child Become More Responsible, Confident and Resilient. […]

The Rev. Jerome W. Berryman, an author and Episcopal priest, is a senior fellow with the Center for the Theology of Childhood in Houston. He has developed an internationally used approach to religious education called “Godly Play,” inspired by the Montessori approach to learning, which teaches children through parables, silence, liturgical movement and sacred stories. It’s used internationally […]

A May 28, 2008, commentary by the Rev. Walter B. Fenton posted by the United Methodist Reporter. Fenton maintains that gay-rights advocates’ continuing call for more dialogue about ordination and related topics amounts to their saying “Let’s keep talking until we have convinced you that you are wrong,” and he says rank-and-file Methodists are satisfied with the […]

Read a May 9, 2006, Washington Post story about parents who shy away from organized religion but want their children to have some introduction to it.